NORDIC AND BALTIC KIDS FOR KIDS

Jury

The jury of the Nordic and Baltic KFK consists of two adult and three youth members. The adults are professionals in media education, Kirsi Mustalahti and Olli Mononen. The youth members are pupils from Sampola Secondary School.

The youth jury members are Markus Pajarre, Aino Turtonen and Riina Peltomäki. They are 15 year old ninth-graders from Sampola School. They were involved in a Finnish-Taiwanese documentary project, My 24 hours.
 



 

Kirsi Mustalahti is a freelance actor and event producer, whose personal objective is easy access and reach, the combination of different areas of art of culture and delivering art to children and youngsters. During the last two years, Kirsi has made bilingual touring theatre with the TIRAKKOR troupe and through it also studied Finnish sign language.

 


 

Olli Mononen is a jack-of-all-trades of Pikku Kakkonen, a children’s programme of the Finnish Broadcasting Company. He has trained as a nursery school teacher, but was snatched up as a presenter of children’s programmes in 1988. Olli is a journalist, presenter, director and these days a producer as well. He is also the voice of the puppets Riku and Late Kettu of the programme Karvakuonot, and he has directed, amongst others, the Tonttu Toljanteri advent calendar series.
 


 
Markus’s hobbies are orienteering and photography. He likes movies and TV series, especially Britcoms.
 

 
Aino spends her free time with her friends, at the gym and listening to lots of music.
 

 

Riina enjoys all things creative, like drawing and acting, and hanging out with friends. She also plays volleyball and is into other sports as well. She is interested in a future career in journalism.